Word: building
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side of those with whom she fought against the Nazi oppressor, and in particular the United States, England, the Soviet Union, France hopes to build a new world, based on democracy and collective security. It is a union of free peoples which permitted victory, and this union sealed in a common sacrifice can guarantee peace. The United Nations organization appears to us the most efficient instrument against the threat of aggression...
...India's Back. They left it to the British Raj to build a "sturdy central pier" (as the London Times called the May 16 White Paper) "requiring only a comparatively short span from either side" to bridge the gulf between Moslem and Hindu. Pakistan was rejected. Instead, the plan set up a union of all India with a central government to control defense, foreign affairs and communications; it could raise revenues for those functions. To please the Moslems the White Paper offered the possibility of strong regional governments which could plan their own economic and social development. Two would...
Washington was careful not to slight Ottawa's sovereignty or her ties with Great Britain. The U.S. would share the cost with Canada. But otherwise neither partner's foreign policy would be tied to the other. The purpose was purely military, to build a bastion against attack from the north. Nobody mentioned the name of any likely attacker from that quarter...
...Your Gun (music & lyrics by Irving Berlin; book by Herbert & Dorothy Fields; produced by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II) is a great big follow-the-formula, fetch-the-crowd musical. It bothers with nothing artistic or bizarre. It involves almost as many people as were needed to build the Pyramids, and works the most important of them almost as hard. Star, whip and wheelhorse of Annie is Ethel Merman...
...stumbles worst when he attempts to lay socialized industry and the human heart in the same downy bed. "If we build a network of electric power," cries Hero Telegin on the last page, ". . . America can watch our smoke!" "Yes," cries Heroine Dasha, "we'll live in a log cabin with large windows, beautifully clean, with pearls of resin coming out of the wood. In the winter we'll have a huge fire flaming on the hearth...